AIDS drugs have so improved the survival prospects of people with HIV that death rates among the recently diagnosed in industrialized countries have become comparable to those never exposed to the virus, according to a newly published European study.
Medical records show that, before 1996 - when combinations of antiviral drugs became available - the death [...]
Study shows improvement in AIDS/HIV survival rates
NYT on Pos Or Not?
mtvU’s anti-stigma campaign, Pos or Not?, was profiled in the New York Times.
Hot or Not, a Web site where people submit photographs of themselves so that strangers can rate how attractive they are on a scale of 1 to 10, has spawned many imitators (plus a fair number of critics who view it as a [...]
UCSF researchers studying cognition in older HIVers
With many people who have HIV and AIDS living longer, thanks to advances in medications, a group of researchers and doctors at the University of California, San Francisco is looking at how having HIV might affect cognitive health in people over 60.
People who have HIV and are over 60 are being sought for the three-year [...]
Man to Sue Hospital for Disclosing His Status
An HIV-positive Boston man says a doctor at the city’s Caritas St. Elizabeth’s hospital disclosed the man’s status to his employer MyFox Boston reports (myfoxboston.com, 5/13). According to the report, the man plans to sue the hospital.
The news report says that in May 2005, the man, whom it names only as “John,” was rushed from [...]
South Carolina bill to notify schools of students’ HIV status
The symptoms pointed to a possible diagnosis of HIV/AIDS for Dr. Tracy Macpherson’s teenage patient. Prolonged fever. Unexplained rash. And acknowledgment of risky sexual activity during the past few months.
Macpherson sent the teen for an HIV/AIDS test at the county health department.
But a state law requiring that HIV/AIDS test results be reported to a student’s [...]
mtvU: Positive or Not Campaign
mtvU has launched their Positive or Not? anti-HIV/AIDS stigma campaign. You will be presented with a series of pictures that challenges your conception of who or what groups are stereotyped as more likely to get HIV. They are the same people who have created the game Darfur is Dying.
I think this campaign is especially important [...]
Peace Corps Fires Man With HIV
The American Civil Liberties Union has sent a letter to the Peace Corps demanding that it change its policy of barring people with HIV from serving as volunteers.
The letter was sent on behalf of a Denver, Colorado volunteer who was sent home from his post in the Ukraine and terminated after he tested positive.
“I joined [...]
Op-Ed: What’s a Girl to Do?
As new HIV infections among U.S. women keep rising, a new study probes America’s attitudes toward positive ladies. And the findings ain’t pretty.
In the United States, women now account for more than a third of new HIV infections and a quarter of new AIDS cases. The proportion of AIDS diagnoses among women has tripled [...]
My Mother vs. Me
My mother wasn’t as exactly enthused or encouraging as I would have liked her to be. She actually used the word “embarrassing,” seemingly speaking on behalf of the family — but on some level I rationalize her initial “frustration” was a knee-jerk reflex, but it does nothing to assuage my mounting guilt.
I signed up to [...]
South Korean court blocks plan to deport HIV patient
A South Korean court has blocked plans by immigration officials to deport a Korean-Chinese man because he is HIV-positive, court officials said Friday. The Seoul Administrative Court said in a ruling announced Thursday that such an action would deter others from seeking HIV tests, the officials told AFP.
The national human rights commission had appealed to [...]